April 29, 2013 Mark Hagland
It was fascinating recently to hear Melvin C. Almodovar, M.D. and Peter C. Laussen, M.D. describe the clinical transformation work that began at Boston Children’s Hospital under their leadership; indeed, that case study has tremendous implications for specialized clinical informatics development going forward, on a very broad scale.
April 18, 2013 Mark Hagland
Just this week, I read a fascinating thread on a listserv created and maintained by physician informaticists. The subject? The frustrations of physician documentation issues for practicing physicians. Healthcare IT leaders ignore the complaints of docs in the trenches at their peril.
April 12, 2013 Mark Hagland
Terry Carroll's understanding of the fundamental IT foundational challenge facing the pioneers of healthcare is astonishing--and something I'm eager to share with our readers, as we hurtle forward towards the new healthcare.
April 9, 2013 Mark Hagland
As I reported moments after its release on March 4 at HIMSS13, the 24th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey offered results that strongly validate where the healthcare industry is right now in terms of moving forward towards what we at Healthcare Informatics are calling the new healthcare. It’s worthwhile to take a further look at some of the survey’s results, and their implications for the year ahead.
March 31, 2013 Mark Hagland
It was refreshing and encouraging to hear leaders from organizations that aren’t yet famous for their pioneering quality improvement work talk about how they had made dramatic strides in patient safety, care quality, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency. And their testimony only adds to the growing evidence that the quality revolution in healthcare is eminently doable—for everyone.
March 27, 2013 Mark Hagland
Want to know what’s really going on these days in the healthcare IT vendor sphere? The Healthcare Informatics 100 will once again be a uniquely important touchstone for our industry
March 17, 2013 Mark Hagland
Amid the crazed swirl of the annual HIMSS Conference, it can be challenging for any attendee to keep everything in perspective. But, with a week-and-a-half's distance from the frenetic activity of the conference, it's possible to look back at HIMSS13 and see things in a broader context. And a number of themes emerge, all of them falling under the broad heading of clarity.
March 14, 2013 Mark Hagland
It was a wonderful opportunity for Healthcare Informatics that our Assistant Editor Rajiv Leventhal was able to sit down with David Nash, M.D. during a break in the 13th Population Health Colloquium, being held this week in Philadelphia. And what Dr. Nash said about population health and accountable care is extremely important for healthcare leaders to know about-and understand.
March 11, 2013 Mark Hagland
It’s frightfully easy to get caught up in the crazed, whirling dervish-like swirl of the HIMSS Conference. But the reality of what everyone in healthcare IT is working towards these days hit home for me shortly after I got back home from HIMSS13 in New Orleans.
March 8, 2013 Mark Hagland
Comments made by Marilyn Tavenner, R.N., of CMS, and Farzad Mostashari, M.D., of the ONC on Wednesday at the HIMSS Conference were fascinating on many levels and along many dimensions-and well worth pondering in some depth.
